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THE BURTON HOLMES 
LECTURES-ILLUSTRATED 
IN COLOR 



ACCOMPANIED BY A SERIES OF 

ORIGINAL 
MOTION PICTURES 

PROJECTED BY THE 

CHRONOMATOGRAPHE 



FIFTH YEAR 



THE BLAKELf PHINTIhO CO., CHICAGO 



CDC Burton Rolmes Cectures 



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|))asntricent Illustrations in Color 



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Copyright^ J897 
By E. BURTON HOLMES 



Cbe Burton Rolmes Cectures 



ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS 

COLORED BY 

KATHARINE GORDON BREED 



ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURES 

PROJECTED BY 

THE CHRONOMATOGRAPHE 



SUBJECTS 
FOR THE. 
FIFTH SEASON 



'XDe iUonaers of CDessalp/' 



''Cpcling CDrousi) Corsica/' 



*' Cities of tfte Barbarp Coast/' 



''Oases of tDe mgerian Sabara/' 



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D)ore About 3apan/* 




E. BURTON HOLMES 



n Foreword 

"^1 'HE course of five lectures prepared by Mr. Holmes for 

the season of J 897- 1898 offers a wide range and variety 
of subjects. Each lecture introduces a different race and pre- 
sents a different civilization. 

A series of original illustrations will reveal in turn, the 
Greeks, the Vlachs, and the Turks upon the plains of Thes- 
saly; — the bearded monks of the Meteora in their aerial 
monasteries ; — the brave and vengeance-loving Corsicans, in 
their mountain villages and sea-coast castles; — the Moors of 
Barbary; — the Arabs of the Algerian plateaux; — the Bedouins 
of the desert; — the black dwellers in the oases of the Great 
Sahara, and the dainty little people of Japan. 

These illustrations, with few exceptions, are the result of 
Mr. Holmes^ photographic work in foreign lands, and will sur- 
pass in interest, beauty and artistic merit those shown in pre- 
vious years. 

Miss Katherine Gordon Breed, who by her slide-painting 
has made for herself a unique place in the world of art, brings 
to her work for the present season, the inspiration of six 
months of travel and color-study in Mediterranean lands. 

In addition to Miss Breed^s beautiful color-creations, there 
will be presented (for the first time in connection with a course 
of illustrated lectures) a series of pictures to which a modern 



miracle has added the illusion of life itself, — the reproduction 
of recorded motion. 

Mr. Holmes has been fortunate in securing the most 
perfect instrument yet invented for the projection of Motion 
Pictures — 

Cbe Cbronomatographe. 

A different series of Motion Pictures will be shown at 
every performance, after the conclusion of the lecture. The 
scenes reproduced will not necessarily be related to the subject 
of the evening, but will be miscellaneous in character. These 
pictures are, without exception, unique, being made expressly 
for exhibition in connection with the Burton Holmes Lectures. 

The technical excellence of the chronomatographic films 
and the mechanical accuracy with which the pictures are pro- 
jected are due to the skillful co-operation of Mr. Oscar Bennett 
De Pue. — Mr. De Pue has, by his careful manipulation of Mr. 
Holmes^ illustrating instruments, during the last four years, 
rendered the optical and mechanical features of the lectures re- 
markable for perfect smoothness. In his experienced hands 
the Chronomatographe realizes all of the present possibilities of 
animated photography. 



NOTE: — On the opposite page are shown two short sections of 
Chronomatographe pictures. The reproduction of a scene of one min- 
ute's duration requires over one thousand successive pictures, made at 
the rate of from eighteen to twenty per second on a ribbon of trans-- 
parent film, more than, one hundred feet in length. The little picture 
shows the comparative size of film used in other instruments. The 
advantage in point of sharpness and brilliancy is obviously in favor 
of the larger pictures projected by the Chronomatographe. 



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VENICE 
FROM A MOVING STEAM LAUNCH 




THE EMPIRE STATE EXPRESS 



Comparative size of pictures used by 

Cinematograplie, Vitascope and 

other instruments. 




Ubc Hrrival. 




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CDe Ulonaers 

of CDcssalp 

FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE 
TO THE 
MONASTERIES IN THE AIR 

'T'HE recent Greco-Turkish conflict has made 
the name of Thessaly familiar; but the exact 
whereabouts of Thessaly, its physical aspect and 
the nature of its people, are subjects about which 
few questions have been asked and fewer 
answered. The war correspondents did not point 
out to us, above the smoke of battle, the forms of 
Ossa, Pelion and high Olympus. They did not 
tell us of the beauty of the Vale of Tempe, nor 
excite our wonder with descriptions of those stu- 
pendous rock columns that rise from the Thes- 
salian battleground, bearing aloft upon their 
narrow summits the eyries of the monks of 
Meteora, the almost inaccessible ^^Monasteries 
in the Air,*^ to which travelers are hoisted by 
means of net, rope and windlass. •** ^ c?* ^ 




tibe 3EIev>ator of tbe 
/iReteora. 



Cpcllns 
CbrouSD 
Corsica 




FROM MOUNTAIN 
TOPS TO MEDITER- 
RANEAN WAVES 

Q ORSICA was the 

birthplace of Napo- 
leon — Corsica is the 
land of the Vendetta 
— this is the sum of 
popular information 
about Corsica. That 
it is an island Swit- 
zerland; that it pos- 
sesses towering- peafcs^ 
wild mountain gotges^ 

fruitful valleys and interesting- mediaeval cities; that perfect roads traverse 
the island and penetrate to its remotest regions; these things have not 
been widely published. Nor is it suspected that in scenic beauty the 
highway along the western coast of Corsica is no unworthy rival of that 
famous section of the Corniche Road between Nice and the frontier of 
Italy; — and this terra incognita, so full of promise to the traveler and 
touring cyclist, lies within sight of the much frequented Riviera.-^ •-* 




Cities of m 
Barbarp Coast 

FROM ALGIERS, THE WHITE, 

TO CONST ANTINE, THE 

WONDERFUL 

npHE lands that lie between 
the Mediterranean and the 
Great Sahara are only just begfin- 
ningf to attract a tithe of the 
attention that is their due. ^^ ^ 
The Barbary Coast is, to many, 
merely a name, sug;gfestive of 
pirate tales or of stretches of in- 
hospitable sand along a desert shore. Only those who have visited 
the beautiful and fertile region near Algiers, the mountain villages of 
Kabylia and the Wonder-City, Constantine, have any idea of the 
beauty, the picturesqueness and the impressiveness of the Barbary 

Coast. Jt .* Jk .* .* .,•* ..•* -.'* -.* -* 





Oases of tbe 
jllgcrian SaDara 

THROUGH THE GORGES INTO 
THE DESERT 

pHE charm of the desert and 
its mystery are as great and 
as profound as the charm and 
the mystery of the sea. -> J- 
Only the desert and the sea are 
changeless. They alone refuse to 
accept the impress of human en- 
deavor — they are the same to-day 
as when man first beheld them. 
But there are islands in the sandy sea^ as well as in the watery deep^ 
and in those islands dwells a strange people. A journey to the palm- 
embowered Oases of the Oued Rirh cannot be other than a unique 
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FROM TOKYO TO THE SACRED ISLAND OF THE INLAND SEA 

TVTHEN, last season, the ^*ReaI Japan'^ was for a second time revealed 
to Mr. Holmes' audiences, it was asked, by many, why the companion 
lecture, on the ^* Cities of Japan,'' was not tepcsdcd also. It is in response 
to this expressed desire to hear more about Japan that the present 
lecture has been prepared. <* ?* .^ jt -jt e^ .jt 

In it will be found the choicest portions of the original lecture on the 
Japanese cities, combined with much fresh material and many new and 
beautiful illustrations recently received from the Far East. Jt Jk jt 

** More About 
Japan " is in 
no sense a 
repetition of 
either of the 
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pan delivered 
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THE CHRONOMATOGRAPHE 

will reproduce, among others^ the following: scenes from European and 
American Life. .j* J- .^ .^ .^ ,j* J. 



VENETIAN SCENES 

on the Piazza., the Rialto and the Grand 

Canal. 


The NORTHERN PACIFIC 
Transcontinental Express Crossing the Prai- 
ries of Dakota. 


NEAPOLITAN LIFE 

Santa Lucia and the Piazza. San Ferdinando. 

A Macaroni Feast — Italian Swordsmen 

Fencing. 


THE DALRYMPLE FARM. 
Scenes on the biggest farm on earth. Inter- 
minable procession of reapers. 
The latest thing in threshers. 


THE TARANTELLA 

Danced by the famous Napolitano Troupe 

at Sorrento. 


The GEYSERS of the YELLOWSTONE 

—Old Faithful— 

The Black Warrior — The Fountain. 


Streets and Piazzas of ROME, MILAN and 
PARIS. 


The CATARACTS of the YELLOW- 
STONE. 
Beautiful Gibbon Falls — The Upper Falls of 


THE EMPIRE STATE EXPRESS 
The best picture of the famous train. 


the Yellowstone — Two magnificent views 
of the Great Falls of the Yellowstone. 


A CAVALRY CHARGE OF U. S. 


THE S. S. KAISER WILHELM II 
leaving the Hoboken Pier. 


REGULARS. 

The most thiilling picture of the kind yet 

produced. 


LOWER BROADWAY ON A BUSY 
DAY. 


TRA.NSCONTINENTAL EXPRESS, 
N. P. RY., Crossing the Great Divide. 


ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE 


ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCENERY 
FROM A COWCATCHER. 


THE WHIRLPOOL OF NIAGARA. 


THE GOLF TOURNAMENT AT 
WHEATON. 


COMPANY M FIRST REG. I. N. G. 

^'Switzer's Indians,*' in full dress uniform 

firing a volley. 


The Eight Contestants in the Amateur 
Championship Driving Off. 


POLO PLAY AT LAKE FOREST. 



And many other beautiful or interesting subjects. All made expressly 
for exhibition with the Burton Holmes Lectures by Mr. Holmes and Mr. 
Oscar Bennett De Puc. New pictures are being constantly added to 
the collection. ^J'j^^.j^^J-J' 




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